Category: DNA

DNA Helps Orange County Authorities Solve 2 Murders

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County authorities Monday announced that advances in DNA technology helped solve two murders dating back to 1987 and 1989. The suspect in the killings was identified as Reuben J. Smith, who was 39 when he took his own life with a gun in Las Vegas in 1999, according to Garden Grove police…


Lawmaker: Possible Threat Targeting US DNA; Monkeypox Vaccine Considered a Clinical Trial | NTD News Today

Over a thousand illegal immigrants died crossing the southern border into the U.S. since President Biden took office. That trend is increasing. A U.S. lawmaker, warning Americans about sharing their DNA with testing services, saying foreign adversaries could access it to create bioweapons. A WHO official admits that monkeypox vaccine distribution is being treated as…


New DNA Tests Cast Doubt on 1996 Conviction in Railroad-Spike Slaying, Lawyers Say

David Lee Myers has been on Ohio’s Death Row since 1996, awaiting execution for one of the most gruesome killings that anyone in Xenia, Ohio, can recall: A railroad spike had been jammed through a young woman’s skull, and rocks, which had been used to violate her sexually, had been left inside her body. People around…


Intelligence Committee Member Warns of Possible Threat Targeting Americans’ DNA

A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has warned Americans not to use DNA testing services, because the data could be collected to create bioweapons targeting individuals or groups. “You can’t have a discussion about this without talking about privacy and the protection of commercial data, because expectations of privacy have degraded over the last…


Intelligence Committee Members Issue Warning on Possible Threat Targeting Americans’ DNA

A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has warned Americans to not use DNA testing services because their data could be collected to create bioweapons targeting individuals or groups. “You can’t have a discussion about this without talking about privacy and the protection of commercial data because expectations of privacy have degraded over the last…


Intelligence Committee Member Issues Warning on Possible Threat Targeting Americans’ DNA

A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has warned Americans to not use DNA testing services because their data could be collected to create bioweapons targeting individuals or groups. “You can’t have a discussion about this without talking about privacy and the protection of commercial data because expectations of privacy have degraded over the last…


Intelligence Committee Member Issues Warning of Possible Threat Targeting Americans’ DNA

A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has warned Americans not to use DNA testing services, because their data could be collected to create bioweapons targeting individuals or groups. “You can’t have a discussion about this without talking about privacy and the protection of commercial data, because expectations of privacy have degraded over the last…


Organ Transplant Recipients Retain Donor Traits—Why?

In-brief A large body of empirical evidence supports the existence of personality changes in recipients of organ transplantation. Documented cases show changes in transplant recipient’s preferences, emotions, temperament, memory, and identity, with both negative and positive consequences ranging from rejection of the organ and death to a complete makeover of the person’s personality.  Dr. Larry…


Tech Company CEO Charged in Decades-Old Murder of California Woman

A tech company executive was arrested in New York over the weekend in connection with the 30-year-old homicide cold case of Laurie Houts, according to prosecutors. John Kevin Woodward, 58, the chief executive officer of the online training company ReadyTech, was taken into custody on July 9 at John F. Kennedy airport after arriving from Amsterdam,…


Man Gets Life in Prison for Fatally Stabbing Houston Boy

HOUSTON—A man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016. Andre Timothy Jackson had chosen state District Judge Denise Collins to sentence him instead of the jury that had found him guilty of murder on Tuesday in the death…